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Palestinian student vote offers taste of real democracy
As relations between rival political factions hit rock bottom and with the prospect of a general election ever more distant, some Palestinians ...Indonesia orders preparations for executions of drug convicts
The Indonesian government said Thursday it had ordered officials to make preparations to execute a group of drug convicts, most of them ...14 migrants killed by train in Macedonia
Fourteen migrants were hit by a train and killed in central Macedonia late on Thursday as they walked through a canyon along ...Chechnya leader gives `shoot to kill` orders on Russian forces
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Thursday ordered his troops to "shoot to kill" if they encountered any unauthorised Russian forces on the ...Armenians mark 100 years since Ottoman massacre
Armenians worldwide will mark the centenary of an Ottoman massacre of up to 1.5 million of their people on Friday, as tensions ...Russia boosts energy ties with Argentina
Russia and Argentina on Thursday signed a slew of deals furthering energy ties as Moscow reaches out to allies amid its standoff ...Russian TV channel admits reporter dropped cigarette at wildfire
A Russian state television reporter dropped a lit cigarette butt at the scene of raging wildfires in Siberia, sparking a fire in ...EU leaders hold emergency summit on migrant crisis
EU leaders sat down for crisis talks Thursday on possible military action against human traffickers in Libya, in a desperate bid to ...For largest babies, inducing labor may help prevent injury during birth
Some women pregnant with unusually large babies may benefit from inducing labor to reduce the odds that the infants\' shoulders get stuck ...Greek PM meets Merkel, urges speeded up reform-for-cash deal
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called for a speeding up of work to conclude a reform-for-cash deal with euro zone creditors to ...